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trowels and rakes to dig foranything that could have beenRoman.

The items we found were: asword, an old padlock with akey, a few old keys, a fryingpan, a cup with JC on the

bottom, a terra cotta tile, askeleton with a tooth, somerope and metal pieces. Wehad to think about whichones could be Roman andwhich ones were modernrubbish. We enjoyed the digand learned about how ar-chaeologists work.

Antonio Kipkorir 4M

On Tuesday 9th September,2014, Year 4 students wentto an archaeological dig onour school campus, next tothe school tennis courts.

We wanted to discover ifRomans came to Tanzaniaand we were also learningabout how an archaeologistworks to uncover ancientthings.

We went to dig for artefactsin a place where Mrs Ma-randu and Mrs Gorringe hadalready surveyed thearea. We collected spades,

and experience it in ways thatdemand courage, generos-ity, imagination, princi-ple and resolution. TheRound Square approach pro-motes six IDEALS of learn-ing:

Internationalism

Democracy

Environment

Adventure

Leadership

Service

Our Round square coordina-tor is Mr Jeff Schwartje andhe is assisted by Ms EmilyBarry. If you have any ideas,get in touch at [email protected] .

The whole school communitywere delighted last term toreceive the news that, fol-lowing our application to,and visit from, the RegionalDirector of Round Square,we have been admitted intothe organisation. St Constan-tines is the first school inTanzania to gain member-ship. For us it means extend-

ing our existing commitmentof service to others so that itpermeates the entire ethos,

philosophy and curricu-lum of our school. Situ-ated as we are, in one ofthe most beautiful, bio-geographically diverseenvironments in theworld, and surrounded by

villages where basic edu-cation is lacking, we see aneed to involve ourselves inthe communities around us.

Membership of the organisa-tion also opens up the oppor-tunity for our students to goon exchanges to schools allover the world.

We intend to broaden our

curriculum to enable stu-dents to prepare for life byhaving them face it head-on

ROMANARTEFACTSDISCOVERED ATSCIS

TERM 1 - FIRSTHALF, 2014-2015VOLUME8 , ISSUE1

DATESTOREMEMBER

Parents Day on Tuesday

28th October (no school that

day for students)

Boys and Girls U14 Basket-

ball and Open Football

Tournament at Braeburn on

Saturday 25th October

ISM Arusha Campus Inter-

School Track and Field Meet

on Saturday 1st November

ISM Moshi Sports Weekend

from Friday 28th November -

Sunday 30th November

School closes for December

Holiday on Friday 5th

December

SCIS ChronicleThe Official Publication of St. Constantines International School, Arusha, Tanzania

The Hellenic Society of Tanganyika

Round Square Membership Begins

TOWN CAMPUSNEWS

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CULTURALHERITGETOUR

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FROMTHEWEBSITE 5

WHYFOCUSON ENGLISH?

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GETTINGTOKNOW

YOU . . . 8COMMUNITYSERVICE

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PRIMARYIDEALS 13

SCIENCEFAIRTEASER

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SPORTSREVIEW 16

INSIDETHISISSUE:

Year 4 Students dig anddiscover various Roman

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All Upper primary students at

SCIS are preparing special

songs on the theme of "Our

School Values" for their con-cert to be held on Tuesday,

December 2nd. Students will

be singing, playing, dancing,

and acting out the qualities of

respect, courage, coopera-

tion, integrity, responsibil-

ity, kindness, and motiva-

tion. All parents and family

Upcoming Values Concert

with recount writing, read-ing, learning about theirsenses and becoming numberwhizzes.

Our grownups of theschool have taken on thenew role with confidence.With Ms Jessica, they havemade Ms Aly feel verywelcome in our school. Atthis stage they are all very

used to working in smallgroups and are quite inde-pendent and in control oftheir learning.

Both Year 1 and Year 2 arenow using the new laptops intheir classes for both Literacyand Maths groups. It is amaz-ing to see how confident theyare already.

After half term we will have

our first ever SCTC StudentCouncil made up of studentsfrom both Year 1 and 2. Fromthat council, two memberswill be chosen to representour campus at Main Campusmeetings. We are hoping thatmost of these meetings willbe able to be conducted viaSkype.

Our Assemblies are taking ona Personal Development and

International approach. Sofar, we have had assemblieson New Beginnings, EID,Helping Hands, Manners andJulius Nyere.

We all look forward to an

exciting year ahead as we

prepare our little ones for

their future lives!

News fromSt. Constantines Town

Campus (SCTC)

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What a great start to the yearwe have had out at the TownCampus! We all cant believeit is half term already.

Our new little Nursery stu-dents settled in surprisinglywell. Ms Sushila and Ms Roseknow just how to make thechildren feel at ease and moti-vated. The tears lasted for a

week only.Last years little ones made asmooth transition into ourReception class which is nowfull. The children have beenbusy learning about them-selves and are now ready tolearn all about Tanzania. Theywere even the first SCTCclass to head out on a schooltrip. Ms Christina and MsBeatrice are our Reception

stars!

Year 1 who are led by MsMaryam and Ms Pauline havesettled into their new classvery well. They are now stay-ing at school for the wholeday and seem to have madethe transition quite well.Their days have been filled

members are invited to attend

from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. and en-

joy an uplifting evening.

SCTC students making use oftheir new school laptops

Our new Head Girl, Simaloi Sikar, and our new Head Boy,Happy Mbaleni, pose for a photo after their appointment.

Our school values on displayoutside the Primary School


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around Arusha. During ourwalks around the schoolgrounds, some of the pupilshave begun to show greatpromise as future twitchers.Sharon in Year 5 has the eyes

of a hawk, letting the groupk n o w(quietly ofc o u r s e )when shehas a bird inher sights.Ariana inYear 3 isalways keento find thebirds in her

binoculars and happily sharesher bird book with the otherpupils. Devine in Year 3quotes, bird club is specialbecause we get to watchbirds, make birds and knowhow to help birds.

With thee x c i t i n gprospect of abird mural

in the sec-ond half ofTerm 1, allbird watch-ers shouldbe on thelook out fornew species

of birds to add to the mural.

One of the challenges thatBird Club faces is finding ar-

eas where the birds are activein the heat of the afternoon.Our recent trip to Shanga wasan attempt to try a new areawhere there is a permanentwater source and, as a result,there may be a permanentbird population. We werefortunate to find a new spe-cies of sunbird for our list,the Variable Sunbird and a

Bird Club was introduced as anew initiative this half term tofoster the pupils interest andknowledge of the wonderful

bird life of East Africa. Our

Friday activities are variedand fun, from scouring theschool grounds armed withbinoculars, monoculars andbird books in search of newspecies for our ever growing

bird list, to making 3D papermch birds while payingclose attention to getting theshapes of tails, body size and

wings as close to their chosenbird as possible.

We have been delighted bythe response to bird clubfrom the pupils who haveembraced the club, findingany moment of the day toshare their stories of birdsthey have seen in their gar-dens at home and in and

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Blue Monkey in the trees butwe are still on the hunt forother possible sites near toschool. Please let us know ifyou are aware of some goodsites that we can visit in thecoming half term.

Bird List so far:1. Pied Wagtail2. Lilac Breasted Roller3. Pied Crow4. Black Flycatcher5. Yellow Billed Kite6. Silvery Cheeked Hornbill7. Variable Sunbird8. Scarlet Chested Sunbird

9. Hadeda Ibis10. Dark-capped Bulbul11. African Yellow White-eye

We look forward to adding tothis list next half term. Keeptwitching in the mean timebirders!

Miss Lucy and Miss Tucker

SCIS has two mountain summit

hiking trips planned. Thismonth, we will hike Mt.Meru, and in March we willhike Mt. Kilimanjaro. The yearnine students take their train-ing seriously and hike eachSunday to build endurance andteam bonding.The pictures above show someof the practice hikes in action.We are always open to sugges-tions for new locations to hikein please let us know yourideas! - Emily Barry

St. Constantines International SchoolP.O. Box 221

Dodoma Road, Burka Estate

Phone: 555-555-5555Fax: 555-555-5555

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Bird ClubOur Eyes are Set to

the Skies

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SCIS Chronicle should besubmitted to:

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In Social Studies the Year 3s have been learning about the history offarming and discussing the hunter gatherers nomadic lifestyles. Lastweek they visited the Cultural Heritage Centre on two separate out-ings. While viewing the artwork they were encouraged to look for

evidence of the tools that hunter gatherers might have used and someactivities they might have taken part in. In Art, the Year 3s have beenlearning about the colourful and unrealistic style of Tinga Tinga art.

We walked around the gallery and viewed the collection of modernand historical art and crafts from throughout Africa. The studentsidentified hunters with their spears in a hunting exercise; meanwhilethe women carried calabashes to transport water necessary for differ-ent household purposes. Upon seeing a range of realistic and abstractartwork, the students came up with stories. One story was about thebaboon with mumps, one was about how the Maasai got his coolshades and another about the lost warthog at the Baobab tree. Somealso enjoyed taking pictures by the cross crocodile outside the gal-

lery at the end of the visit.

During the last week the students have been producing some interest-ing write ups about their trip. Below is an account from Loloin 3L.

On Tuesday I went to the Cultural Heritage Centre with 3B. First wewent on the bus and we had to wait for others to get on the bus andthen we had to go over the instructions so we could not touch any-thing. Then we left.

When we arrived at the cultural center we looked for a place to eatour lunch. After that we got put into three groups. One was with MissBowen another one was with Miss Liz and the last one was with MissLucy.

Then in our three groups we went into the art gallery. In the art gal-lery my group saw a picture of a Baobab tree, then I saw a picture of afabric that was painted over and it looked so beautiful. We went to seea picture of camouflaged giraffes and it was hard to find the giraffes.Later we saw Tinga Tinga artwork.

Over the past two weeks, our Years 10,11, 12 and 13 have hadvisits to the Pepsi bottling factory in Arusha. The main purpose ofthe visits was to see in action the uses of sensors, computer-controlled motors through actuators, and how robotics and auto-mation are used in modern companies.

The students enjoyed themselves and, judging by the number ofquestions asked at the end, managed to make the most of theirvisit. This was topped, of course, by a free sample of the drinksbeing made that day. Some of the students even managed to get ataste of the undiluted syrup before water is added: they all agreedthat water was an essential ingredient to temper the richness!

In addition, Pepsi also kindly donated footballs and a clock to addto the school's resources. They were all very satisfying trips andour students behaved immaculately. Many thanks to Mr LalitKumar, of Pepsi, for helping to organize these tours.

Year 3 - Cultural Heritage

The thing I liked most about the Cultural Heritage center is I learntnew things about art and one day I wish to go back with my family.

Both outings were a big success! The teachers were delighted tosee how well the students experienced what it was like to live as ahunter and gatherer, and how they responded to the art that was ondisplay. Miss Lucy was especially pleased that students from Birdclub were able to identify some of the East African birds.

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On Wednesday 1stOctober, 2014, the Re-ception classes from Town Campus andMain Campus went to the Snake Park andMaasai Museum together. All Year levelsdo activities together each term to buildtheir friendships across town so that theywill be comfortable when the Town Cam-pus class joins their peers at the Main Cam-pus for Year 3. Next week Receptionclasses will begin a unit on Tanzania, so thetrip allowed the students to preview a Tan-zanian tribe and some animals found in Tan-

zania. The trip will also be used as a Re-count activity, which is the current texttype they are working with in Englishclass. The students will retell the events ofthe day using time sequence words and pasttense verbs.

In the Snake Park, the students were de-

lighted when curious snakes came close tothe windows! They were very interested in

the way that snakes are able to move. Uponseeing the skeleton on display in the lobby,many students had hypothesized that a snakehas many legs. The teachers enjoyed thestudents comments and discoveries. Formany of the students, their favourite activitywas petting a snake!

In the Maasai Museum the students weresurprised to see houses and clothing so dif-ferent from their own. Many of them saidthat their own mothers could build theirhouses as well! The students enjoyed dress-ing and dancing, listening to the rhythmicsound of the beads and bells as theymoved. They will review these and havemany more exciting experiences with Tan-zanian culture over the next few weeks!

For more photos please go to our Receptionalbum on our St. Constantine's InternationalSchool - Town Campus Facebook Page.

On September 2nd

, 2014, the AS BusinessStudies and BTEC Business classes went on ajoint excursion to visit the great Shanga

work station and store. For all those whomare not aware of the Shanga community, letme brief you; Shanga is a business that dealswith producing different types of jewellery,accessories, dishes, vases, shawls, and muchmore using only recycled material, mainlyglass. The glass material is usually collected,or donated by large firms, such as hotels.

Not only that, but what else makes Shanga aspecial, yet unique place to visit, is the factthat 55 out of 90 of its employees are dis-abled individuals. Shanga deals with equal-ity, and helps provide equal benefits tothose less fortunate in our community - inthis case the disabled. Other than castingthem out, they provide a source of finance,as well as treat them as equal members of awork force.

During our visit to the Shanga work shop,not too far from our school, we saw sevendifferent sectors. On our arrival, we werewelcomed by two of Shanga's employees,

who also aided us in the sign language to beused for those whom are of mute and deafnature.

We first visited the furnace exhibition. Asfire blazed from all corners of the machines,we found out that only the best of the bestgot to use such equipment due to its riskquartile. It was extraordinary. We had fi-nally unveiled the mystery of how glass wasmade.

After that, we visited the weaving station.Over there we learnt how the Shanga com-rades made casualties such as scarves, tablemats, and shawls, as well as discovering howthey change colors using dye. At the samearea we discovered the talents of a localartist, who had expertise in tinga-tinga art.We saw all types of paintings, which wereindeed breath taking.

News from the Webwww.scis.sc.tzReception Trip to Snake Park

and Maasai MuseumAS / BTEC Trip to Shanga

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Further on we visited the iron and sewing

room. Over here we saw women work onadding the final touches to all the clothesthat had previously been made, as well ascreate masterpieces for resale. They werevery friendly and welcoming too. A few ofus tried on some of their garments, includ-ing kanga hats, and bags. One of the boysquoted I wish they had boy things for metoo.

Onwards, we went to the beading section.Over here we met women who specialised

in making fine jewellery and accessories.We also found out that we had been step-ping on the same ground as famous actorGeorge Clooney, who visited earlier thissummer. One of the women who briefedus, personally explained to us about herexperience with the beloved actor, as wellas how he purchased a necklace from herbare hands!

We then went on to see the metallicsteel work area. Here, we were wel-comed by a man who showed us how

the steel was recycled and made intodesirable items like; bracelets, housedecorations, wind chimes, designerglasses and breath-taking chairs.

On our sixth venture, we visited therefining section. We saw how the recy-cled glass was transformed into literal

sand, and converted onto medium sizedbeads. We also learnt that the capital goods

were also recycled. The bead-making ma-chine was made of a recycled bicycle tyre anda tractor motor!

Last but certainly not least, we visited theever so famous Shanga gift shop. Over herewe saw wonders of all kinds. We saw $4000valued azul tanzanite rings, cool African t-shirts, kanga attire, Shanga-made chandeliers,home based wine glasses and vases, and somany more wonders.

Overall the whole experience was amazing

and we would like to thank Mrs Murray fortaking us. We got to see things we wouldhave never seen on our own, and best of all,we got to experience it as a class. As for any-time you happen to have a wondering glass athome, be sure to pass it along. Somewhere, itmight just be valuable!

Nellissa Soka (Yr 12)

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On Wednesday the 24th of September theBTEC Travel and Tourism class went to theAfrican Walking Company. Located in avery isolated and extremely private area,the African Walking Companys headquar-ters is in Ilboru, Sakina. They rent the land,which is owned by Mike Metili, who alsoowns a lodge nearby.

We embarked on our journey at 8:30 andgot there at 9:00. As we got off the bus, akind looking man was smiling at us. Hisname was Jon; he was extremely welcom-

ing, and straight away started with a joke, toset the mood. Jon had some chairs set outfor us, so we sat down and he told us a littleabout the company, which is a well re-spected climbing company. African Walkingspecialises in helping tourists climb Kiliman-

jaro. They are the leading mid-priced trekproviders. They also do safaris to nationalparks, but thats not what they specialise in.The company was started by an English mannamed Jim Foster, who opened it in 1999,

and their main aim is to provide the bestservice possible to customers, and makesure they get them up and down the moun-tain safely. The African Walking Companyhas received a lot of glowing feedback fromtheir customers.

Jon then gave us a tour of the premises. Thefirst thing we saw was all the employeescleaning the tents, cutlery, chairs etc. Thecompany does well to maintain their equip-ment as this is a regular process. Jon thenwalked us around to another area, wherewe saw a shed where they keep the orderedequipment that was ready to be taken to themountain. We then went inside the buildingwhere we saw some of the faculty, including

Peter whose job was to make tents and fixany damaged ones. We hadalso met the finance depart-ment, who explained howthey calculate the costs of allthe equipment that they buyand then rent to customers.Finally we spoke to Mama K,or Mama Porter as they referto her. She joined in 2006 and

since then she has come up with, and man-aged, a porter schedule that works excel-lently. She is also there for her faculty as amother figure, and is very important to theoperations at African Walking Company

After teaching us so much, the AfricanWalking Company was kind enough toserve us some tea and coffee, where we alllaughed and shared the information welearnt. We are very grateful for the timethat Jon and his staff gave us and we lookforward to further opportunities to extendour learning in the workplaces of the manytravel and tourism component industriesthat Arusha and the surrounding area has tooffer. Nahdi Kassim, Yr 12

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One of the breakthroughs in the evolution of the hu-man species was the ability to communicate by speech

and writing.Literacythe ability to communicate using words isvital to becoming a well-educated person. Literacyincludes the ability to speak audibly and clearly usingappropriate words which can written down with cor-rect spelling and with handwriting that is legible.

One of my chief academic concerns at St Constan-tines is the poor standard of literacy among our stu-dents, particularly in the secondary school. It seemsthat whatever good habits were developed in the pri-mary school, they fall off during the transition

through secondary.Literacy is a fundamental human right entrenched inthe UN Charter. It is the foundation for life-longlearning. It is fully essential to social and human de-velopment in its ability to transform lives. For indi-viduals, families, and societies alike, it is an instru-ment of empowerment to improve health, ones in-come and ones relationship with the world.

The uses of literacy for the exchange of knowledgeare constantly evolving, along with advances in tech-nology. From the Internet to text messaging, the ever-wider availability of communication makes forgreater social and, as events during the Arab Springshowed, political participation.

A literate community is a dynamic community, onethat exchanges ideas and engages in debate. Illiteracy,however, is an obstacle to a better quality of life, andcan even breed isolation and violence.

The metonym, The pen is mightier than thesword, is a truism. This phrase occurs throughout

literature. Al-though attribut-able to Edward

Buller-Lytton, anEnglish author inhis play, Richelieu;Or the Conspiracyin 1839, refer-ences go backmany centuries.Greek philoso-phers make refer-

ence to the power of the spoken and written word. The prophetMohammed is attributed with stating,

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr".

How we wish Islamic terrorists would heed His advice.

Shakespeare too, never to be outdone, makes reference to thepower of the word, as Hamlet proclaims in Act 2; Scene 2,

many wearing swords are afraid of goosequills [pens].

The power of books has transformed our world both for good and

for bad. We think of how many millions of good people have beenkilled over the years, inspired, or deluded, by individuals misinter-preting such books as the Bible; the Koran; Karl Marx, Das Kapi-tal; Adolf Hitlers, Mein Kampf.

As Staff, we wish for all our students to focus at all times on thequality of their written and spoken word, not just for the threedays of English Focus, but throughout their time at St Constan-tines.

Wilf Stout - Headmaster

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Ms. SuzanneMaxtone wasborn in Edin-

burgh, Scotlandand is the Secon-dary Englishcoordinator atSt. Constan-tines. Beforecoming to Tan-zania, Ms. Max-

tone taught in four other countries: Scot-land, England, Lesotho and Egypt. Ms.Maxtone spent one year in Egypt andtaught the I.B. curriculum when she was

in Lesotho, near South Africa.When asked about her reasons for comingto teach in Tanzania, Ms. Maxtone statedthat she wanted to return to the RealAfrica and its people. She has loved hertime so far in Tanzania because she lovespeople and she finds the people here to bevery friendly.

As for her feelings about working at St.Constantines, Ms. Maxtone is veryhappy and believes that the current staff

make a great team and is full of intelligentpeople who are energetic and always will-ing to help.

When not teaching, Ms. Maxtone loves

playing sports and trying new foods. She

is a huge rugby fan and loves sailing, kay-

aking, golfing, horseback riding, and ski-

ing. She also loves Indian, Chinese, Ital-

ian, and Scottish foods.

Aamena Taypa & Arisa Hussein

Miss Emily Barrycomes to St. Con-stantines from Chi-cago in the UnitedStates. She wasteaching at a schoolin Chicago beforeshe came to ourschool to teachswimming.

when she was able to present a studentof hers, Lucky Yona, an award as thebest student in Tanzania.

Ms. Upendo chose to work in Tanzaniabecause it is her home country and shewants to influence the next generationof Tanzanians.

In her spare time, Ms. Upendo likes to

cook, especially chapati, and likes to

spend time with her family. She has

two pets - a dog and a cat. The cat is

called Shimmie and the dog is called

Packo. Ms. Upendo has a good sense

of fashion but she hates shopping. Shealso loves listening to music and coun-

seling.

Tidiane Khan, Elizabeth Naitaka

& Maliha Rizwan

Mr. GeoffreyNamulala hasbeen teachingArt for a longtime now inKenya, butthis is his firsttime workingand being inTanzania.

He moved here with his wife and threechildren and is very excited to work ina different environment. He finds thelocals friendly and humble. When he

isnt teaching hes designing. He woulddefinitely recommend working in Tan-zania to his friends, because the envi-ronment and the people here are nice.Plus, he says its a beautiful place.

PS: He wants to add a splash of brightcolors around the school and make theschool lively.

Maureen Amon

When asked about her best and worstexperiences since arriving in Tanzania,Miss Barry really had something to say.

For her best experiences, she said it wasmeeting the new staff and making newfriends but for her worst experienceshe had a monkey enter into herkitchen! She had been so excited to seethe monkeys at the school when shebegan but having one in her kitchen wasa little too close for comfort.

Miss Barry said that her friends would

describe her as positive and motivated

and that Mr. Stout, the headmaster,

would describe her as a happy personand a hard-worker. Miss Barry said that

she would definitely recommend work-

ing in Tanzania to her friends back

home in the United States.

Karishma Patalia & Hannah Joshua

Ms. UpendoNjisya is a

K i s w a h i l iteacher at St.ConstantinesInterna t iona lSchool and hailsfrom Tanzania.She used towork here atSCIS before

leaving, but now has returned. She leftthe school to complete her Masters de-gree at Mount Meru University. Ms.

Upendo first came to SCIS as an under-graduate from the University of Dar EsSalaam. When she came to SCIS, shesays she learnt how to interact withother people.

Ms. Upendo shared both the best andworst thing that has happened to herwhile at SCIS. For her, the worst thingthat happened was when Mr. Njonjopassed away. Her best memory was


Getting to know you. Getting to Know you better.


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Mr. David Owen(ICT) is fromP o n t y p r i d d ,Wales. Apartfrom the UK hehas also taught in

Togo, Nigeria,Malawi, the Car-ibbean, the Leba-non and Abu

Dhabi for two years. He previouslyworked in the University of Manchesterand chose to work in Africa because heloves the continent and its culture.

Its his first time to work in Tanzaniaand he has been pleased to find such afriendly group of students. He likedthem when he first came and has liked

them even more the longer he stayed.Since he came to Tanzania, he has beento Arusha National Parkhe loved see-ing the animals there and climbed 4,000ft of Mt.Meru.

His hobbies include writing and photog-raphy. He also plays rugby and has beenon television before.

He is pleased that the school are cur-rently updating all the software andhardware and looks forward to makinggreat progress after the mid-term break.

In ten years time he thinks hes proba-bly going to be retired, writing novelsand taking photographs.

PS: He owns a red tuktuk, which defi-nitely deserves a mention.

Maureen Amon

Mr. AndrewAustin (Music)is from Lym-

ington, Eng-land. Its hisfirst time inAfrica and hecant wait toexplore theT a n z a n i a ngame parks and

coasts. He finds the staff and studentsvery friendly, and the local staff reallynice and welcoming. However, the lan-

mined ,and when he is not teaching hebabysits the kids in the dormitory.

Here are some very interesting thingsthat happened in his life: I was in theBrazilian Amazon with 72 students andwe were in the middle of a gold rob-

bery where 5 armed men shot 15 bul-lets and stole $2 million worth ofgold. He has also competed in theworlds longest race, for three daysover 120 km, on self-made raft. Thesewere some of the interesting thingsthat happened in his life. We are gladthat he came to SCIS.

Zainab & Hamza, Yr 7

Miss Burton

is a lovelyteacher inour opinionbut we thinkevery onethinks shes agreat teachertoo.

Miss Burtonis from Eng-

land, but born in Jamaica . Miss Burtonchose the job to work at SCIS because

she saw an advertisement for the job.She has taught in Kent, London, Eng-land, Norwich and Cyprus.

Miss Burton got her Biology job atSCIS by applying for the job and get-ting interviewed on the internet. Herfirst impression was daunting becauseher former school was a catholicschool, much smaller than SCIS.

What surprised her was the paintingseverywhere. The most challengingthing is that she cant order stuff like in

England. The best thing that has hap-pened to her was meeting all the stu-dents with nice smiley faces, and theworst thing that has happened is thatsomeone stole her pens .

Some of the people shes met are MrsSingh, Mrs Boakes, Mr Austin, and MrKearney. She sees herself as a Head or

guage barrier is a bit of a challenge. Hefinds riding motorcycle taxis and beingin tuktuks exciting and he would liketo learn Kiswahili. If he werent ateacher hed probably be playing in aband or doing something with geology.

In ten years, hes hoping to be retired,composing music and teaching pianoback in England.

PS: Hes worked in Malaysia, Dubai,Spain and England before.

Maureen Amon

We are goingto introduceyou to ourSCIS geogra-

phy teacherM r . J e f fS c h w a r t j e ,who has re-cently joinedour school. We

interviewed him and he told us someinteresting things about himself.

Mr. Schwartje is from Toronto, Can-ada. He has worked before in Peru andRussia. He chose to work in Tanzaniaas there are many opportunities to

carry out field work on his subject ,and also his goal is to live in every con-tinent. He got the job at SCIS afterseeing an online advert on a recruitingwebsite.

His first impression of SCIS were coolmonkeys and large green fields.

He finds ways to improve the results ofhis students very challenging. The bestthing that has happened to him is thathe was able to establish round square(see front page) and he also says he has

met interesting people with interestingstories and experiences.

Mr. Schwartje said he sees himself inSouth East Asia, Peru or South Amer-ica in ten years time, and he wouldalso recommend staying in Tanzania.His friends will describe him as gener-ous, down to earth and free spirited.He said that Mr. Stout will describehim as hardworking and deter-


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to visit family, friends and when she goesdancing. She is afraid of bungy jumping.Ms. Livingstone has three siblings: twobrothers and one sister. It was difficultliving with them when they were small,but now they are best friends.

Sanita Cunningham, Yr 6

Mme LynetteOdhiambo is avery good pri-mary Frenchteacher. Shelearned French inschool back inKenya and en-joyed learning alanguage which

mostly nobody in her country speaks.

She is really kind and shes nice and fairto each and every student she teaches.She is really friendly and is targetting todo her job well and seriously.

Mme Lynette has a husband who is fromTanzania, so that`s why she decided torelocate and come to teach in Arusha.Before she came to Arusha, she used toteach in Kenya in a school called ChaniaGirls.

She got the job at SCIS by replying to anapplication on the school website. Herfirst impression of SCIS was the highquality education of Internationalstandards. What suprised her most aboutworking at SCIS was the rich mixture ofculture.

Her most challenging thing aboutworking in Tanzania has been peoplesattitudes. The best thing to happen whileteaching at SCIS was seeing Year 3 being

able to speak French. Shes foundfriendly and cooperative people whileworking at SCIS.

In the next ten years, she would like to

become a Professor. She would

recommend working in Tanzania to her

friends back in Kenya .If she wasnt a

teacher she would be a business woman.

Ian Rugari, Yr 6

would describe her as friendly, outgoing

and honest. Mr. Stout would describe

her as enthusiastic and very sporty. In

her spare time she likes socialising with

friends, taking photographs, bird watch-

ing and reading books.Jerald Elias, Yr 6

Ms. Livingstone(Year 6) is fromScotland. Shechose to work herebecause she hasvisited before andreally enjoyed her-self in Tanzania.She previouslytaught in Sterling

in Scotland. The way she got the job isthat she saw the job on the school web-site and applied.

She thought SCIS was very green andbeautiful when she first arrived. Thething that surprised her the most iswhen monkeys came into her class-room. The thing she finds challenging iswhen people speak Kiswahili, but she'slearning.

The Best thing about Tanzania is gettingto ride a piki-piki. The worst thingabout Tanzania is getting bitten by redants. She's met lots of nice teachers andstudents. She said that she still sees her-self teaching in ten years time, but shedoes not know where.

Ms. Livingstone would recommendworking in Tanzania to her friends backhome because she loves the sunshine. Ifshe wasn't a teacher, she would be rid-ding a piki-piki. She said her friends

would describe her as fun, silly and abit forgetful. Mr. Stout would describeher as (hopefully) not silly or forgetful.Ms. Livingstone enjoys reading, watch-ing movies, and taking walks when sheisn't teaching.

The hardest thing that happened to Ms.Livingstone when she was small wasshe had to move from her city and makenew friends. She is happy when she goes

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Vivienne Hambleton - Director of Admin

Evans Temi - History and Sociology

Olivier Muhoza - ICT

Ciara McCarthy - Girls Boarding / Music

Aly McDonald - Year 2 (Town Campus)

Kevin Gorringe - Year 2

Liz Underwood - Year 3

Victoria Gorringe - Year 4

Jaclyn Pettitt - Year 6

Lucy Glover - Primary Art

In the next issue:

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St Constantines is very pleased to beoffering the BTEC Level 3 Travel andTourism course to a very keen group ofYear 12 learners this year. The course isdesigned to be vocational in nature andthis provides the students with the op-portunity to explore the Travel andTourism sector in great detail. I amlooking for your support in ena-bling the students to gain as muchas possible from their learning in

this area and would very muchappreciate it if you could contactme at [email protected] if youwork in the sector and would beable to provide support for thecourse. Many thanks. Miss B Gray.

Request for Support


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The community service team this half

term has been very busy doing service

projects within the community and in

our own very school.

Our first trip was to Samaritan Home,which is an orphanage located inMashono. The orphanage has 150 chil-dren and caters for children from birthto 18 years of age, when the children canfend for themselves as they go to univer-sity, get a job, etc. The children at thecentre are often abandoned by their par-ents; some are found in paper bags whilestill young, while others are street kidsthat have been picked up and brought in.

The community service team was verytouched by their stories and is planningto organise another trip to the orphanageso that we can properly help them.

Our second trip was to Pipi House,

which is a prostitution home for young

girls who have been engaging in sexual

acts to get money to support themselves.

Pipi House will provide them with better

living conditions, education, food and

assurance that they will not have to selltheir bodies in order to live. However,

there are some girls at the house who

have come to seek refuge not due to

prostitution, but due to the fact that they

are homeless. The community service

team got a chance to talk to the girls and

get to know them. On our second trip,

we presented them with clothes that had

been donated by students from St. Con-

stantines International School.

The community service team has alsobeen working in our own school bycleaning classrooms and corridors, help-

ing out in the kitchen, and helping pre-pare the boarders dinner and the nextdays break snacks. Last, but not least,we cleaned plastic bottles which weredestined to become part of the Primarygreenhouse this gave us a chance tointeract with the primary students. Wehave been very active this half-term andhope to do more next term with yourcontinued support.

Community Service

The school's Environmental Councilworked with the Roots and Shoots clubthis term and began by prioritizing localand international initiatives. Studentscreated a water awareness campaign toencourage people to use water moreefficiently. They hope the campaign goesglobal - you can join in our challenge onInstagram, Twitter or Facebook by using

the hashtag: #nodrip.

On campus, students began compostingfood scraps from lunch, and continue toplan for a secondary garden.

The primary and secondary school col-laborate each Wednesday to de-label, de-cap, rinse, sort, cut, and assemble waterbottle totem poles that will serve as wallsfor the school's up-cycled green house.Thank you to all who contributed.

Secondary Report

SCIS Students visiting Pipi House home for girls

EnvironmentalCouncil

Secondary students learn compost-ing by using food scraps from lunch

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craft, shared reading, games and literacy

tasks. Our students have been excitedto meet some other students the sameage from a different school, and havebeen happy to share their ideas and timewith the St Gemma students. Whileone group has visited St Gemma, theother groups at school have been in-

volved in looking afterour school environmentby litter picking, sweep-ing, raking and evencleaning some teacherscars! The community

aspect of our

Ideals afternoonis a great way forstudents to think

about helping others,looking after their sur-roundings and makingfriends with other peo-ple less fortunate thanthemselves. We lookforward to the pro-gram continuing withmore ideas in the sec-

ond half term.Miss Cindy and MissVictoria's CommunityService Groups foundthe time and enthusi-asm to wash the teach-e r s c a r s t h i sweek! Without tellingthe teachers the ex-cited pupils rushed

about with buckets, sponges andsoap to surprise their favouriteteachers. Not only was it fun buteveryone felt that they had improvedtheir environment as well as helpedout. It may have been a little soggybut there were smiles all round! Allthat was left were clean cars with amessage saying 'cleaned by Commu-nity Service!

Finally, the recycling group havebeen collecting used plastic bottlesand are in the process of turningthem into a school greenhouse.Check back here in the next issue tosee how they get on with this thesides are just about to go on as this iswritten!


The children who are in the Community

Club this term have done many things toassist in our school community and ourwider community. We started a part-nership with St Gemma Galgani Pre andPrimary school at Mateves last year. Thishas continued this term with a group ofSCIS Primary students visiting a class

each week for a 45 minute program on

Wednesday afternoons. Some of theactivities our students have been involvedin are singing, paper plane and paper

Primary School Ideals Afternoon:Community, Recycling and Teamwork

The Primary Car Wash

SCIS students working with St Gemma students

The Recycling group organized themselves into teams,decapping, de-labeling, cleaning, rinsing, cutting and

then stacking the plastic bottles factory-style.


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Parents and friends are cordially invited to

THE SCIS 10thANNUAL

SCIENCE FAIRDate: Thursday 4thDecember 2014

A celebration of Science,communication and the

Scientific Method

More than 80 original research

projects, carried out by SCIS

students on display

Science themed

refreshments and

entertainment.

Identify a problem.Research and formulatea hypothesis.Conduct experiments.Communicate results.Reach a conclusion.


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Primary Athletics Carnivals

Primary School Buddy Reading

On Friday 10th October, Year 2 6 students got in-volved in some Buddy Reading. This involved studentsfrom Years 5 and 6 visiting the classes of students fromYears 2 to 4 and listening to them read. The older chil-dren really enjoyed offering guidance to their youngercounterparts, while the younger students benefittedfrom an extra opportunity to read and get to know thebig kids. All in all it was a really successful initiativeand we hope to expand it further in the second half ofterm, including some trips to Town Campus for Year 6.

On Friday 26th September, our Lower Pri-mary Athletics Carnival took place at the

main campus. All of our students from Nursery,Reception, Year One and Year Two, from bothcampuses, took part. It was great fun for all andeveryone had a chance to take part in all of theevents. These included parachute, long jump,sack race, basketball rolling, obstacle course,softball, high jump, bean bag race and 50m re-lay. Refreshments were on hand and many par-ents turned up to support their little ones asthey moved around the different events. Manythanks to Mr Kevin for organising the wholeevent with such efficiency.

This was followed, on Friday 10th October, bythe Upper Primary Athletics Carnival. Allof our students in Years 3 - 6 took part in thisand, although the spirit of taking part was stillmost important, there was a little more compe-tition among the students. Events included100m sprint, long-jump, discus, shot-put,200m sprint and tug-o-war. Students were ableto enjoy juice and fruit as part of their rotationsand each group had a communal basket in whichto carry and store their individual water bottlesbetween events. Miss Cindy organized anotherexcellent event and our sincere thanks go to herfor making it all happen.


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On October 3rd, 2014 theBTEC sports students, withthe support of the St. Con-stantines InternationalSchool (SCIS) sports depart-ment, held the annual inter-

house athletics competition.This competition is a greatway for our students to rep-resent their houses as well asthe school by competing intrack and field events, andsome goofy games to end theday.

This year the video scavengerhunt was introduced as partof the day, and was a huge

success. Each house wasgiven a list of about twentytasks to complete around theschool and city. They thenhad to film as many tasks asthey could complete and editthem in a creative way topresent to the school. Thevideos were then shown tothe whole secondary schoolat the beginning of the athlet-ics sports day. This served asa great spirit-builder to getthe students competitivejuices flowing for the trackand field events.

The track and field eventsthis year proved to be greatexamples of our SCIS stu-dents great athleticism. Eachstudent, in all of the races,showed great heart and effort

as they competed for thehouse title. Other than acouple of hiccups in the rulesof the relays, the studentsabilities shined amid the earlyafternoon sun.

The day ended with a BTECstudent-led activities hour.This hour consisted of fungames such as an egg toss,sack race, four legged race,dizzy race, and a dala dalachallenge, to name a few.This hour was full of strat-egy, fun and a lot of laughs.Of course, it all culminatedwith the tug-o-war chal-

lenge, which was won byAthens. Unfortunately, Ath-ens then had to face the realchampions, the teachers,who beat Athens handily inthe final tug-o-war battle.

The day was one of greatfun, competition, and spirit.All houses showed that theyhad pride in their house andthe school. The final stand-ings after the day were as

follows:4thplace- Sparta

3rdplace- Olympia

2ndplace- Delphi

1stplace- Athens

Congratulations to Athenson their win. They were anextremely organised team.

The 2014-2015 school year hasgotten off to a great start aca-demically and also athletically

with secondary sports at St.Constantines. This year, St.Constantines (SCIS), Interna-tional School of Moshi-MoshiCampus (ISM), InternationalSchool of Moshi- Arusha Cam-pus (ISMAC), BraeburnSchool, Orkeeswa SecondarySchool, and St. Judes School,as well as Kennedy House inprimary sports, have joinedtogether to form the Northern

Tanzanian Athletics Associa-tion. This conference promisesto ensure a unified league ofhealthy and unified competi-tion, and it has already proveneffective.

Already in the first term SCIShas participated along with the

SCIS: Founder Members ofthe Northern TanzaniaAthletics Association

Secondary SchoolAthletics Carnival

aforementioned schools intwo super tournaments ofsenior football and junior

basketball, as well as an ath-letics clinic. Scatteredamongst the tournamentshave also been friendlymatches in football, volley-ball, rounders and t-ball.

The Titans of SCIS havemade the school proud withsome convincing victories,but have also suffered someunbearable losses. This is thejoy of sports though, and aswe continue along through-out the season our athleteswill learn and grow throughfriendly and intense compe-tition amongst their peers atthe other internationalschools.

The Northern Tanzania Athletics Association in action

Documents

SCIS Chronicle Volume 8 Issue 1